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CVE-2002-0423

CVE information

Published

21 years ago

Last Modified

15 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

High

Impact Analysis

Description

Buffer overflow in efingerd 1.5 and earlier, and possibly up to 1.61, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a finger request from an IP address with a long hostname that is obtained via a reverse DNS lookup..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
High
Base Score
10/10
Exploit Score
10/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
10/10
Confidentiality Impact
Complete
Availability Impact
Complete
Integrity Impact
Complete

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:a:efingerd:efingerd:1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
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cpe:2.3:a:efingerd:efingerd:1.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
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